The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-11-03


words of encouragement. 1t is, our high
est aim to make The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
a faithful exponent of their wants and
wishes, and a faithful advocate of their
rights and interests. Many thanks, kind
friends.
Arrangements are being made by
Mr.. John T. Patrick, of Patterson, New
Jersey, to establish a silk factory at
Wadesboro. It will be erected on the
site known as "Carr's Mount Arrange
ments have been made to have the ma
ehinery all there by the 18th of next
February. Let the good work continue.
North Carolina is the place. for manufac-
turing.
The laying of the cornerstone of the
Lee monument in Richmond, Va, last
week, was accomplished, Notwithstanding
the exceedingly bad weather. An i'm
mense crowd witnessed the ceremonies
and thousands Of the braye old followers
of the great and immortal Lee were pres
ent to attest their genuine affection for
him. Gen. Wade Hampton, of S. c., was
Chief Marshal.
We were delighted to see some beau
tifully canned goods at our State Fair
from the Hanes Canning Co., at Lexing-
ton, and also quite a variety Of u small
fruits put up in handsome style by the
Hickory Canning Co., and on exhibition
at the Catawba Fair. Such enterprises
should be encouraged by our merchants
and people, for they are valuable factors
in our industrial progress.
The continued rains must operate
seriously against the farmer. Much Of
the corn, cotton, peas, potatoes, &C., is
yet not harvested, while a very large pro-
portion of the land to be seeded to wheat
is yet untouched. We fear that great
damage will be done to the crops yet in
the field. The very unusual bad weather
for the past two weeks should admonish
our farmers that there should be no delay
in gathering in the crops as soon as the
weather will permit. Let this receive
their first attention.
We learn by a card published in the
agricultural and alliance papers, from T.
J. Andrews, State Alliance Business
Agent of Arkansas, that he was en-
couraged by the business men Of Little
Rock to establish his headquarters in that
city. He did so, but the cotton buyers
combined against him. He promptly re-
moved his Office to St. Louis, and now
Arkansas cotton will 60 to another State
to find a friendly market, and the trade
which an Arkansas city would enjoy
from it's sale is, by this piece of arrogance
and folly, transferred to a city in another
State. When will some people learn that
the farmers of the country have rights?
We saw a heifer thirteen months old
sold for $3.50, and one Of the same age
sold for 500 at our Jersey Cattle Show
in this city last May. We also saw a bull
calf, ten months old sold for $75. Last
week we saw a three-year-old COW,
weight 1850 pounds, with her first calf,
giving six gallons of milk per day, and
the calf, only three weeks old, could not
be bought for less than 1915. We saw a
bull two years old which weighs over 400
pounds, and a calf fourteen weeks old
which weighs $50 pounds. And it costs
more to raise and keep such cattle
than the common scrub cattle. And yet
we see men every day in our travels who
are cultivating good grass and cloyerlands,
in. cotton, corr and tobacco, and their
whole herd of scrub cattle does not pro-
duce enough butter for the family. A
calf three weeks old worth more than
bales of cotton!
Read the demands laid down by the
National Alliance and read them carefully.
Some of these demands have been laid
down numbers of times by different
bodies, but like most of the good resolu-
tons of farmers, they2were formulated,
passed and died out with the earnest
speeches which inspired their adoption.
They have not been followed up and
pressed. They were not mentioned in
the primary meetings and conventions
which nominated candidates and framed
platforms. They were not discussed
through the papers. They were not adj